After eating a meal of love spicy hotpot, Huo Yu returned to the basement again.
The baby auk is extremely important, not only because of its status as an extinct animal, but also because of the responsibility in Huo Yu's heart.
Ever since I got the pet egg, it has been placed beside Huo Yu's bed.
Until the scientific research station developed to its current scale, it has been silently witnessing everything in the form of an egg.
To Huo Yu, the baby auk is more like the youngest child in the family. It is his responsibility to let it live healthy and happy forever, rather than taking on the mission of continuing the race.
Likewise, this is also the unshirkable responsibility of humans towards the great auk race.
After all, they perished because of human hunting.
The system's timing was extremely accurate, and the baby auk indeed woke up after 48 hours.
The baby auk opened its eyes and immediately saw Huo Yu looking at him with a smile on his face, and the whole bird's mood became happy.
"Gaaaaaah~"
The baby great auk stretches out its two little wings towards the fish, asking for a hug.
Huo Yu paused and asked the system hurriedly: "Tongzi, can I take this little guy out now?"
The system was silent for two seconds, seemingly analyzing the data.
Two seconds later, the system prompted: "The data monitoring is normal, the safety rate of the auk cubs leaving the cabin is 98.7%, and the conditions are met."
The safety probability is 98%, and the remaining 0.20% is still to give God face.
Huo Yu was so excited that he hurriedly opened the glass door of the incubator and took out the fluffy and warm baby auk from the culture chamber.
They feel really good, even softer than small fishes. No wonder humans hunted the great auks to extinction in order to obtain their fur.
The baby auk lay obediently in Huo Yu's arms, its furry body trembling slightly, and its big eyes staring at Huo Yu motionlessly.
The next moment, a childish voice came from the knife-like beak of the baby auk:
"Gaaaaaah~ (Mom~)"
Huo Yu:???
This wave, this wave is called Huo Yu being careless and losing love to Kun.
"Call daddy." Huo Yu patiently taught the baby auk.
Due to the influence of the "nestlings plot", the baby auk completely regards Huoyu as its mother, and established a spiritual link with Huoyu early on.
And the energy related to the blood factor in the eggshell gives the little guy an intelligence that far exceeds that of ordinary auks.
Therefore, Huo Yu has been able to hear the meaning through the little guy's immature voice.
The only disadvantage is that, just like when the little white whale and the little snowy owl first used the blood factor, they could only send out simple meanings and could not express complex meanings.
The baby auk tilted its head, as if it didn't quite understand Huo Yu's words.
A high level of intelligence does not mean a high level of cognition. The cognitive level of humans and animals needs to be enriched by continuous experiences of various things.
In other words, the baby auk is just a relatively smart blank slate, and is still ignorant of the world.
"You can't call me mom. I'm a male, and only females can call me mom." Huo Yu explained patiently, "Say - dad."
The baby auk nodded happily.
"Gaaaaaah~(Hey~)"
Huo Yu's expression froze.
It's really filial. It's true to be filial to everyone.
Seeing the silly look of the baby auk, Huo Yu was no longer in a hurry to correct his father and mother.
After all, he is just two days old. Human cubs cannot even roll over at this time. No matter how important education is, there is no rush for it.
He took out the [Gene Collection Illustrated Book] from his space backpack, and then put a piece of velvet he had just removed from the little guy on top.
The great auk is an extinct animal, so the little one naturally has many responsibilities that other furry children do not need to bear.
But Huo Yu doesn't want this. He hopes that his little ones will live for themselves instead of living for some lofty career.
As an icekeeper, he also hopes that the great auk race can reappear in the world.
Therefore, by storing the genes of the auk babies, they can be considered as contributing to the continuation of the auk race.
The illustrated book glowed with a familiar light, and then quickly faded away, and a few lines of small words appeared again on a new blank page:
Chinese name: Auk
Alias: petrel, arctic penguin
Kingdom: animal kingdom
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Birds
Order: Ploverformes
Family: Puffinidae
Genus: Auk
Gene score: S level (the scores are sorted from large to small as s, a, b, c. The higher the score, the better the gene quality)
Species introduction: A water bird that has lost the ability to fly. It has a thick body and its wings have degraded. It can only glide low on the water. But when it dives into the water, it can continue to flap its wings and has a strong propulsive effect. Due to large-scale hunting by humans
It became extinct in the 19th century, and even its name was taken away by penguins who were discovered later.
Species Rating:a
[Ding! The auk gene has been included and can be copied and extracted at any time. 】
[Ding! It has been detected that the gene of the species is unique, please keep this gene properly, it will be the only fire of this species.]
Huo Yu put away the genetic map and looked at the adorable baby auk, feeling a little distressed.
Creatures like the great auk really bear too many grievances.
Even though they are cute flightless birds, penguins receive preferential treatment and favor from humans, and are even often used as mascots.
However, the great auk was hunted to extinction by humans, and even its name was taken away by penguins.
Yes, the genetic map is right. The English name penguin should belong to the great auk, not to the penguin.
More than five hundred years ago, navigators discovered the great auk on some islands near the North Pole. People called this cute, flightless bird 'penguin'.
Later, navigators came to Antarctica and saw Arctic animals that looked like great auks on some islands, also known as Antarctic penguins.
People cheer the name 'penguin' and take it for granted that this cute animal is distributed at both ends of the earth, completely unaware that in fact they are not only not the same species, but are even very distantly related.
But just when people were celebrating the discovery of penguin in Antarctica, the real penguin living in the Arctic suffered a disaster.
In 1844, the last penguin couple was shot dead on the spot by hunters who were searching for specimens in order to obtain a high reward, and the last penguin egg was also taken away and destroyed.
The penguin, also known as the great great bird, was completely wiped out.